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  1. Re:"...happen again" on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 1

    "Fucking evil cunts."
    I understand the sentiment, but considering the context, that was pretty bad wording.

  2. Re:With deep pride, I must report... on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 1

    Almost Human is really, really good. Or was.

    Transcendence, isn't.

  3. Re:It only can become slavery... on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    sweet. Please define free will.

  4. Re:To all who say it's not two-dimensional on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1
  5. Re:3D video? on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    what do you mean 'nearly'?

  6. Re:Two-Dimensional My Ass... on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    Nope.
    So may physics ignorant people on slashdot.
    uhg.

  7. Re:getting real sick of this on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does. It means specifically that in this context. Please move beyond high school physics, kthxbye.
    Let me know when you understand this:
    http://physics.ucsc.edu/~peter...

    then we will talk.

  8. Re:getting real sick of this on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    with 0 dimensions, hence points.

  9. Re:getting real sick of this on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    The headline is not fail, your understand is.
    I suggest you read Collective Behavior of Interwell Excitation in Double Quantum Wells by Larionov and Tomofev.

    Also:
    http://physics.ucsc.edu/~peter...

    YOU should also be aware the electrons are Zero(0) dimension objects.

  10. Re:getting real sick of this on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    2 dimension objects can occupy 3d space and still be 2 dimensional.

  11. Also on It's World Password Day: Change Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    if a legit user can hack you systems, the user password isn't your problem.
    So many site make you enter a secure password to protect their systems. Ignoring the fact that a malicious person could set up an anonymous account.

  12. Re:Who is this guy? on Ben Starr Answers Your Questions About Sustainability and Kitchen Tech · · Score: 2

    And of course Organic farming uses more pesticides, and is far more harmful to the environment, and has no gain over modern science based farming.

    http://theness.com/neurologica...

  13. Re:Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    It kinda is.

  14. Re: Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    You can't include everything. Most people don't have the correct response to that situation to begin with.

    Of course, as more of these vehicles get on the road, they will start communicating with each other and that alone will drop accidents.

    I see scenarios where an event begins to occur, and 100 cars all have a minor response to support crash avoidance for one car.

  15. Re: Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    no. almost always the are charged with nothing.
    The exception is generally* for people at plow through people for no reason.

    *except in New York where you would need to do it twice before being charged.

  16. Re: Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 2

    +1 selfish short sighted asshole!

  17. Re:Pinto? How about Person? on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    It's not as big as an issue as the make it out to be. In all likely hood, the person at fault won't be the autonomous vehicle, but a different manually controlled vehicle. So insurance will fall on the vehicle at fault, not the vehicle that responded so no, insurance won't be a huge part of this.

    If the autonomous car runs amok, then it's a manufacturer defect.

  18. Re:Pinto? on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    "Pinto was as safe as, or safer than, other cars in its class."
    which simply means they where all poorly designed and Pinto drew the short straw.
    .
    27 people died because of that defect, the fact that it was in most cars is irrelevant.
    They knew about the defect internally and choose not to fix it.

  19. That would be interesting on Open Source Program To Give Voters More Active Role In Government · · Score: 1

    if they could publicly display requests for how to vote from all constituents, and then compare that to how they actually vote.

  20. quality on The Exploitative Economics of Academic Publishing · · Score: 1

    "However, this argument is undermined by the existence of open-access journals that charge authors nothing and have negligible operating costs. "
    yes, and they host any bad, bad studies.

  21. Re:No story here, move along on Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, the media calls him math genius because he calls himself a math genius. Also, he believe PI has an end.
    from the neurologist's preliminary report:

    We studied the patient JP who has exceptional abilities to draw complex geometrical images by hand and a form of acquired synesthesia for mathematical formulas and objects, which he perceives as geometrical figures. JP sees all smooth curvatures as discrete lines, similarly regardless of scale. We carried out two preliminary investigations to establish the perceptual nature of synesthetic experience and to investigate the neural basis of this phenomenon. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, image-inducing formulas produced larger fMRI responses than non-image inducing formulas in the left temporal, parietal and frontal lobes. Thus our main finding is that the activation associated with his experience of complex geometrical images emerging from mathematical formulas is restricted to the left hemisphere.

  22. Re:Tomorrows headline.. on Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius · · Score: 1

    retrophrenology at it's finest!

  23. Re:No story here, move along on Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius · · Score: 1

    No one else does it, it's another way to look how parts of the brain function.
    Acquired savant syndrome is an interesting subject.

    I wouldn't call a guy who sees angles and connected shapes a math genius, but it is interesting and unique,

  24. Re:Any slap on the wrist for the CIA? on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 1

    It was a local Dr. and nurses.

    And health workers getting assaulted and people stopping them for giving vaccinations has been going on far before that. sadly.

  25. Re:Any slap on the wrist for the CIA? on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 1

    sadly it would be their kids and grand kids that suffer, not the people spreading the lies.